Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

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In this episode, Kevin shares with us his path from a top consulting firm in Germany

to helping run a startup accelerator in Shanghai. Learn why he made the jump to China,

the differences in venture capital and startup space in China compared to the U.S., what his plans are for the future, and the realities now with COVID-19 in Shanghai.

Enjoy. All right, Kevin, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks for having me, man.

So it would be awesome if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Yeah, sure. So I started studying in Germany at the University of Monagheim.

What I studied there was business administration.

And during my studies, I always positioned myself very broadly, so I was a total generalist.

You know, I looked into a law firm, into startup acceleration, into a startup, into SME consulting

in India.

And so it was all over the place but for me that was very

much fun and I liked it and after my studies I had a quick placement at Rocket

Internet for three months in Sydney before then I transitioned into strategy consulting at Roland Berger for

approximately three years but the last half year of it I was already focused on my

own startup accelerator or funding accelerator as we called it in Berlin where we were getting precede very early stage

startups in touch with the right investors vCs and angels before then making the big move

from Europe to China Shanghai where now I'm in charge of the accelerator.

It's called, so the company is called Exnote.

And we do three things.

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